Sixty-five-year-old Tukaram Gole owes his life to a 37-year-old army man-turned-GRP constable. Last Thursday, when Gole was at Dadar station, on his way to Goregaon, he felt a wave of pain in his chest and his knees buckled under him. He was lying on the platform when GRP constable Mahadeo Pawane came running to him.

Pawane told mid-day, "I was deputed to control crowds during peak hours at Dadar station. Around 7 pm that day, I noticed that an elderly man had collapsed on the platform. I rushed towards him and asked him what was wrong and he gaspingly told me he had a pain in his chest and was unable to breathe."